by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 24, 2023 | Scam of the day
According to a study last year by Javelin Strategy & Research more than 1.25 million children became victims of identity theft last year and the true number is probably much greater because in many instances child identity theft is not discovered until the child...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 13, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently the accounting firm Ernst & Young disclosed that it had suffered a data breach affecting 30,210 customers of Bank of America for whom Ernst & Young had been doing accounting. The personal information stolen was quite extensive and included names,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 31, 2023 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2023 | Scam of the day
Although I have been writing about synthetic identity theft for many years, many people are not familiar with the term “synthetic Identity theft.” Synthetic identity theft poses a significant threat to many people particularly children. Synthetic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 15, 2023 | Scam of the day
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) recently notified hundreds of thousands of California retirees that their personal information was compromised in a major data...
